How We Think, Work and Write about Migration, Part I - Cohen

How We Think, Work and Write about Migration, Part I

 

CHAIRS: FREIDENBERG, Judith (UMD) and DURAND, Jorge (U Guadalajara)

 

PANELISTS: PENDRY, De Ann (UTK), METZ, Brent E. (KU), COHEN, Jeffrey H. (OH State U)

DISCUSSANTS: VÉLEZ-IBÁÑEZ, Carlos G. (ASU), GRIFFITH, David (ECU)

 

FREIDENBERG, Judith (UMD) and DURAND, Jorge (U Guadalajara) How We Think, Work and Write about Migration, Parts I-II. The wide and enthusiastic response to the question posed in Practicing Anthropology (38.1), “How do we talk about migration” encourages taking another step and suggest new avenues for discussion: what geo-political perspective do we use to study migration, how do we analyze migration and what theoretical perspective frames our positioning; how, and from which disciplines, do we approach research topics and how do we write them up; who do we address, and what is the dominant narrative in our work. We propose four axes for discussion: the geo-political perspective, the analytical approach, the disciplinary option and the narrative practice.

 

Session took place in Santa Fe, NM at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2017.